1875 Directory of
BELFAST
Pg. 169
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)

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BELFAST
In Jefferson Tp.     [PAPER TOWN]

     Land Agents and real estate speculators are acquainted with the phrase "paper towns."  On the 8th of June, 1832, William Walt appeared before Isaac Stephens, J. P., and acknowledged the signing of a "plat and survey to be his voluntary act and deed, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned."  Upon his plat forty lots were represented, but whether he afterwards sold any or not, the writer is uninformed.  At any rate the town is "houseless."  However the compiler supposes that Mr. Walt acted in good faith, and if the people would not build upon his lots after he laid them out, it was not his fault that the "enterprise" failed.
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